I hope you have been well and had a great start to the new year!
So much has been happening these past couple of months, I’m sorry for the silence but I am back fresh and ready to share something the Lord has placed on my heart.
In all honesty it wasn’t what I had originally prepared or expected to be putting out there. I already had a piece written and ready to post, but it seems the Holy Spirit had other plans?
As you read, I ask you do so with an open heart. This could be a word for some but not all, in part or in whole. Either way I hope it blesses you.
I pray for a year that will be filled with only God’s best for you and His divine favour!
A Time to Rebuild.
This word was received and scribed on the 8th January, 2022.
Many of us are to REBUILD this year.
I see two specific groups this word is for.
Group one are those who need to rebuild their personal lives.
“And it shall come to pass, that as I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord.”. – Jeremiah 31:28
These are the people who have experienced some difficult losses and setbacks last year. For some of us (myself included), we have been experiencing loss after loss and fighting battle after battle for several years now, and I declare enough is enough!
This has been a wilderness season but more specifically a refining season, and I see that many are coming out of the wilderness into what will feel like unchartered waters of favour and showers of blessing after blessing!
I feel so strongly to urge those who are weary – please don’t give up.
Persevere!
Renounce fear!!
I see the fire of the Holy Spirit coming down to burn away all the pain and dissapointment and replace it with His love and strength to turn the page and start over.
It’s time to rebuild the areas of our lives that have suffered the repeated onslaught from the enemy – much has been stolen, but God will restore what the locusts have eaten, far beyond what you and I can ask, think or imagine! (Joel 2:25, Ephesians 3:20).
I also hear the words – “No more!”.
That’s directed toward the enemy attacks and lies.
I also sense Holy Spirit speaking to some who have been repeating patterns of self sabotage and falling into the same traps that keep people locked in fear and hopelessness.
And so, I say it again. No more! (This is with all love, no condemnation).
We must look to Him, be grateful and be willing to let go and let God.
Worship will be your weapon.
Allow Jesus to heal and restore you.
Invite Him in, especially to the rooms that have been kept locked.
The key? Be humble.
No more holding back.
The Second Group
“They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.” (Isaiah 61:4)
You’ve known this in your heart for some time but this year you will move forward into what God has been saying, teaching and showing you.
Similar to the other group – no more holding back!
This will be slightly different for each person, but I do see this relating to ministry (which can also be vocation not just the traditional sense of “ministry”). For some, you are to go back to a ministry or business you “put on the shelf” or never fully birthed. There will be those who will reinvent what they have already started.
There will be new innovations and ideas about how you do church, relationships and community but with Kingdom focus instead of religious performance or pulpit popularity contests being a driving force.
Old ways will no longer bear fruit that lasts and we must embrace the new to see the authentic move of God this year and beyond.
Holy Spirit will impart fresh ideas and strategies more and more through dreams and visions, so remain sober.
The word of God is our foundation and this is the time to really press into the still and quiet voice of Holy Spirit despite the increasingly loud voices vying for our attention and focus.
You will benefit by seeking God first and it’s time to break out of the ‘habit’ of going to others for the answers he is already giving you.
You are just as anointed, just as loved by our Heavenly Father!
The key: Go to the secret place often. And by that I mean feast on his word and connect with Him daily. He has much to tell you, show you and impart to you! (Isaiah 45:3).
Many in this group will be stepping into callings of intercession and I see creative and prophetic acts of faith which will help rebuild many broken ruins.
God is with you as you step out- but you must do just that.
Step out.
I see prayer taking priority in people’s lives like never before, powerful prayer groups forming in homes and prayer warriors who were injured in battle fully healed and re-ignited; ready to pick up their weapons and fight again!
There will be a hunger and desire to pray, and not just for our own worlds and wants but the very real needs for our family, community, church and the globe!
BE PLANTED.
Lastly, I see 2022 is a year to be planted and grow.
Much of what was sown last year and in years before will be bursting forth in this new season.
So, I ask.
Where in your life do you need to start over, be planted or rebuild?
What have you been sowing?
As we feed on His word and stand on His truth, flourishing and blooming will break out.
Believe it. Claim it!
I pray that you seek the Lord about how he would have you rebuild the ruins this year.
Amanda xx
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Merry Christmas!!
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